Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation ...

Washington doesn’t impose that duty on the people. He acknowledges their desire, expressed through Congress, to fulfill this ...

November 26 has always been a day marked by significant events across the globe.Back in 1789, the United States Congress ...

Samuel Adams et al. wrote in that First National Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 1, 1777: “It is the indispensable Duty ...

Thanksgiving is around the corner. That holiday is an annual reminder of our nation’s Christian roots, our godly heritage.

The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” ...

Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion. He would use it to call on the people he now ...

It was not even the first national Thanksgiving – which was held on Dec. 18, 1777, at then-General Washington’s behest. Nor ...

On the cusp of our nation’s 250th birthday, the Pilgrims can’t be ignored. Not only did our nation have its roots embedded in the Mayflower Compact written “in the name of God,” but their enduring ...

This Thanksgiving, we should set aside time not only for prayer as a grateful nation, a practice George Washington established in 1789 and Abraham Lincoln renewed during the Civil War, but to discuss ...

In 1789, shortly after taking office as the first president of the United States, George Washington issued a proclamation of ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (Gray DC) - Saturday is the 250th anniversary of King George III Proclamation of Rebellion declaring the 13 colonies traitors to the Crown. To celebrate the anniversary of the Aug.